Lead Procurement Manager (all genders)

HRS AS A COMPANY

HRS, a pioneer in business travel, aims to elevate every stay through innovative technology. With over 50 years of experience, their digital platform, driven by ProcureTech, TravelTech, and FinTech, transforms how companies and travelers Stay, Work, and Pay.

ProcureTech digitally revolutionizes lodging procurement, connecting corporations and suppliers in a cutting-edge ecosystem. This enables seamless efficiency and automation, surpassing travelers' expectations.

TravelTech redefines the online lodging experience, offering personalized content from selection to check-in, ensuring an unparalleled journey for corporate travelers.

In FinTech, HRS introduces advancements like mobile banking and digital payments, turning corporate back offices into touchless lodging enablers, eliminating legacy cost barriers. The innovative 2-click book-to-pay feature streamlines interactions for travelers and hoteliers.

Combining these technology propositions, HRS unlocks exponential catalyst effects. Their data-driven focus delivers value-added services and high-return network effects, creating substantial customer value.

HRS's exponential growth since 1972 serves over 35% of the global Fortune 500 and leading hotel chains.

Join HRS to shape the future of business travel, empowered by a culture of growth and setting new industry standards worldwide.

BUSINESS UNIT

At HRS we understand Finance as a value-enabling function as it is an essential ingredient to our business success. In order to ensure the efficient financial management and financial control necessary to support all business activities, it comprises all major related responsibilities: from Financial and Cash Flow Management, Accounting, Advising and longer-term financing, Tax Management, Investment Management, to Purchasing, Controlling, Budgeting and Forecasting as well as Financial Reporting and Analysis to assisting and challenging the CEO, Business Unit Leaders and Managers in making key strategic decisions. 
The department is set up as a shared service for the HRS Group with a cross-location team of around 40 experts, headed by the CFO and his Management Team, working on standardized workflows to increase efficiency on the one hand and apply state of the art decision-making tools and principle-based recommendations to foster organizational resilience in times of rapid change on the other.

POSITION

Join our Finance Team as a Lead Procurement Manager (all genders) and take on exciting and diverse responsabilities. You will orchestrate and build procurement processes at HRS on a global scale, drive your own initiatives from data analysis to contract negotiations, and support the implementation of new processes at both operational and strategic levels. The role can be based in either Cologne or Berlin. 

CHALLENGE

• As Procurement Manager you are responsible for orchestrating some of the strategic and operational procurement processes across the HRS Group
• Permanent monitoring of the procurement volumes of your initatives, identification of potential, definition of sorucing strategies and realization of savings
• Strive for efficent and holistic category sourcing strategy and action, working closely, openly and interactively with key stakeholders
• Standardize group-wide procurement processes
• You will also focus on supplier management and the optimization of the supplier landscape
• Management of interfaces to other departments, especially for your initiatives will be of high importance in your daily doing
• Support in the implementation of the SAP S4/Hana project
• Get involved along the entire external and internal supply chain incl. operational processes for international locations, e.g. usage of SAP
• Using software solutions to digitalize and as far as possible automize
• Improve the quality of the documentation along the whole procurement process and link with our budgeting and controlling processes
• Supporting our extensive sustainability projects from beginning until implementation

FOR THIS EXCITING MISSION YOU ARE EQUIPPED WITH...

• Bachelor or Master degree in Business Administration or comparable exam, ideally with a focus on business or procurement
• Minimum 2-3 years of working experience in Consulting or a Procurement Department
• Excellent negotiation skills and drive to get things done
• Good presentation skills, analytical thinking and problem-solving oriented
• Independent, organized and structured way of working
• High flexibility and the ability to work under pressure
• Ability to work in a self-motivated and flexible way towards agreed objectives on multiple projects
• Ideally (not mandatory) you have working experience with SAP S/4 Hana
• Excellent German and English language skills, verbal and written; additional languages are welcome

PERSPECTIVE

Access to a global network of a globally united and mutually responsible “Tribe of Intrapreneurs” that is passionately dedicated to renew the travel industry and while doing so reinvent the ways how businesses stay, work and pay.
Our entrepreneurial driven environment of full ownership and execution focus offers you the playground to contribute to a greater mission, while growing personally and professionally throughout this unique journey. You will continuously learn from a radical culture of retrospectives and continuous improvement and actively contribute to making business life better, smarter and more sustainable.

LOCATION, MOBILITY, INCENTIVE

The position is based in Cologne or Berlin, combined with travelling to HQ (Cologne). The attractive remuneration is in line with the market and, in addition to a fixed monthly salary, all necessary work equipment and mobility, will also include an annual bonus.